Board Thread:Pokémon Help/@comment-25141539-20180301123233/@comment-32358261-20180302213141

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Stealth rock

Stealth rock is a very common move in competitive battling that does damage depending on your rock weakness. Charizard is quad weak to rock so it deals half of max health when you switch it in. That killed its usage a lot

Then other issues include it’s more physical oreintated movepool (despite being a special attacker) and barely not enough speed to be a deadly sweeper.

So everything it can do is either outclassed or not good enough. That’s why people only use the mega form.

Mega zard y has similar weaknesses to normal charizard but now with a much more useful ability in drought. This ability powers up its fire moves to levels so high, most pokemon that don’t resist it could be 2hko by a fire blast. So this makes it a threatening special wall breaker. (Seriously who wouldn’t hurt from a 159 base special attack fire stab sun boosted fire blast?)

Mega charizard x is a different story. In this form, charizard becomes a strong physical sweeper. This means it can make the most of its superior physical movepool. Tough claws is a brilliant ability that boosts the power of contact moves combined with a 130 attack stat. While it loses its ground immunity, it also takes less damage from stealth rock. Dragon dance is the cherry on top, making charizard very fast and hit very hard. This is made even more apparent with the lack of choice scarf users in PBB.

Combined with the unpredictability thanks to having 2 mega (they play very differently), mega charizard x or y are very dominant and regular isn’t worth using